Re: [uml-user] Hangups with UML 2.4.22-5um on Heavy Disk Access

[Jeff D. <jd...@ad...>]

li...@rk... said:
> I have seen some posts to this list that expanding the on disk usage
> of a sparse file can be time consuming. But the strange part of this
> problem is that on one machine, these lockups are less than a second
> (a few hundred milliseconds), and on the other machine they are
> several seconds (10-40 seconds). The former machine is a P2-400 w/
> 256MB RAM, and 30GB IDE HD. The latter machine is a Athlon 1.4GHz w/
> 1GB RAM, and 3x36GB Ultra160 RAID5 (software) SCSI array. So, yes, the
> far faster machine is showing these lockups much worse than the slower
> machine. :(

Is it just the UML that's wedged, or the whole box?  If it's really many
10s of seconds, then some vmstat data would be interesting.  Start it during
this period and let it run for a little afterwards so that the difference
is apparent.

				Jeff